Usually means: Assume a resting position downward.
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We found 58 dictionaries that define the word sit:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. sit: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sit: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sit: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sit: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sit: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sit, sit, sit: Wordnik
  7. sit: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. SIT, Sit, sit: Wiktionary
  9. sit: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sit: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sit: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. SIT: Dictionary.com
  13. sit: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sit: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SIT, Sit (disambiguation), Sit (island), Sit: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sit: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sit: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sit: Rhymezone
  19. sit: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sit: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SIT: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. sit: Free Dictionary
  23. sit: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. sit: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. sit: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Sit: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. sit-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. SIT: bizterms.net
  5. SIT: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. SIT: Investopedia
  7. Sit: Legal dictionary
  8. SIT: Financial dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sit: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. SIT: Netlingo
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  5. SIT, .sit: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sit, sit(o)-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. SIT: Acronym Finder
  3. SIT: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. sit: Idioms
  6. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SIT: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sit, sit: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. s.i.t, sit: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive, copulative, of a person) To be in a position in which the upper body is upright and supported by the buttocks.
verb:  (intransitive, of a person) To move oneself into such a position.
verb:  (intransitive, of an object) To occupy a given position.
verb:  (intransitive, copulative) To remain in a state of repose; to rest; to abide; to rest in any position or condition.
verb:  (government) To be a member of a deliberative body.
verb:  (law, government) Of a legislative or, especially, a judicial body such as a court, to be in session.
verb:  To lie, rest, or bear; to press or weigh.
verb:  To be adjusted; to fit.
verb:  (intransitive, of an agreement or arrangement) To be accepted or acceptable; to work.
verb:  (transitive, causative) To cause to be seated or in a sitting posture; to furnish a seat to.
verb:  (transitive) To accommodate in seats; to seat.
verb:  (US, transitive, intransitive) To babysit.
verb:  (transitive, Australia, New Zealand, UK) To take, to undergo or complete (an examination or test).
verb:  To cover and warm eggs for hatching, as a fowl; to brood; to incubate.
verb:  To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of oneself made, such as a picture or a bust.
verb:  To have position, as at the point blown from; to hold a relative position; to have direction.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To keep one's seat when faced with (a blow, attack); to endure, to put up with.
noun:  An act of sitting.
noun:  (mining) Subsidence of the roof of a coal mine.
noun:  (rare, Buddhism) An event, usually lasting one full day or more, where the primary goal is to sit in meditation.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (informal) Short for situation. [The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.]
noun:  (telecommunications) Initialism of special information tone.
noun:  (India) Initialism of Special Investigation Team.
noun:  Initialism of spontaneous ignition temperature.

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